The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films..

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his come….

I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards i….

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what….

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. External….

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of v….

I have a career now, and I have to say, five years ago I didn't. I'm 50, and you never know what works, but I think part of that is because - in this….

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, bu….

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional..

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily iso….

By 1988, I was living in New York myself..

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character..

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love..

I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There's a kind of….